Information System Security Officer (ISSO)

Job description

Job Description

Information System Security Officer (ISSO)

Position Description
1) Supporting the clients by managing activities identified under the Information Security Program and ensuring protection measures are compliant with related information security directives for the information, information systems, and services for their office or region to include but not limited to:
a) Coordinating with the ISO in developing, documenting, implementing, and maintaining an office or region and Agency-wide information security programs to protect information and information systems.
b) Coordinating with the ISO in responding to information security data calls, audit requests, and reporting.
c) Implementing policies, procedures, and control techniques identified in the Agency information security program.
d) Providing guidance on their roles and responsibilities and information security program requirements to system administrators, and others with significant security responsibilities.
2) Supporting the ISO in ensuring effective processes and procedures and other directives are established as necessary to implement the policies, procedures, control techniques, and other countermeasures identified under the Information Security Program and enforced for their office or region by taking actions to include but not limited to:
a) Reviewing periodically the Agency information security system inventory tool and ensuring systems are reported accurately and completely.
b) Reviewing periodically the Agency information security information repository and ensuring all system information security information, such as plans of actions and milestones, system security plans, and security assessment reports, are entered and maintained accurately and up to date.
c) Coordinating with the CIO, Risk Executive, ISO and others involved with securing information and systems to ensure risks are managed to an acceptable level.
d) Monitoring POA&Ms to ensure weakness remediation and mitigation are managed and actions are documented properly.
e) Coordinating and liaising with local, and external personnel for system and information security management, operations and control monitoring, audits, assessments, incident response, and law enforcement investigations.
f) Providing expert advice in developing and updating enterprise and local information security documents to include policy, procedures, standards and guides.

Your future duties and responsibilities
3) Supporting system owners, information owners, and service managers in developing and maintaining system information security documentation, obtaining and maintaining authorization to operate or test, and ensuring systems are configured, continuously monitored, and maintained to adequately protect supported information within acceptable risks by taking actions to include but not limited to:
a) Providing expert advice in:
(i) developing and updating mandatory configurations for information technology products and solutions used.
(ii) determining local controls to ensure compatibility and interoperability with enterprise tools and controls;
(iii) implementing, operating, and maintaining enterprise tools and controls;
(iv) ensuring information and systems are properly categorized;
(v) defining, developing, documenting, implementing, assessing, and monitoring all controls to include common and hybrid controls;
(vi) conducting impact analyses for proposed or actual changes to systems or their operational environments; and
4) Developing and implementing system decommissioning and information disposal strategies.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role
SOX, NIST 800-53 and NIST 800-171, PII Auditing Experience
US Citizenship required, per Federal stipulation.

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